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What time is it?
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Good Lord, my train.
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Anyway, well...
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See you all tomorrow.
Bye.
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- Cheerio, Jack. See you.
- Good-bye, Mr. Lewis.
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Yesterday, I received a letter...
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that referred to an event
that took place...
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almost a year ago now,
December 4, 1951.
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My correspondent
hadn't forgotten.
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I doubt if any of us have.
:10:37
That was the night...
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a Number 1 bus drove
into a column...
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of young Royal Marine cadets
in Chatham...
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and killed 24 of them.
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You remember?
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The letter asks...
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some simple
but fundamental questions.
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Where was God
on that December night?
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Why didn't He stop it?
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Isn't God
supposed to be good?
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Isn't He supposed
to love us?
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Does God
want us to suffer?
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What if the answer
to that question is yes?
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See, I'm not sure that God
particularly wants us to be happy.
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I think He wants us to be able
to love and be loved.
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He wants us to grow up.
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I suggest to you
that it is because God loves us...
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that He makes us
the gift of suffering.
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To put it another way,
pain is God's megaphone...
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to rouse a deaf world.
:11:43
You see, we are like
blocks of stone...
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out of which the sculptor
carves the forms of men.
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The blows of His chisel,
which hurt us so much...
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are what make us perfect.
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Thank you very much.